Spoon Pumpkin Gnocchi is a delicious and super easy first course to prepare, without adding potatoes, just lots of pumpkin and a little flour! Perfect to season with butter and sage to best savor the taste of pumpkin!

These gnocchi are really quick and fast to prepare, as preparing them with a spoon you don’t even have to form the gnocchi or score them! You just need to prepare the dough, which should be soft and sticky, and then directly form the gnocchi with a spoon and cook them in salted boiling water!

If you love gnocchi, and you love pumpkin, you absolutely cannot miss this recipe!

Difficulty: Easy
Cost: Cheap
Preparation time: 20 Minutes
Portions: 4
Cooking methods: Stovetop
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: Autumn

Ingredients

21.2 oz pumpkin
2 cups all-purpose flour
to taste salt
to taste nutmeg
to taste butter
to taste sage

Tools

1 Bowl

Steps

To prepare the spoon pumpkin gnocchi, the first thing you need to do is choose your pumpkin, wash it and then cut it into pieces.
Remove the skin and any seeds, then cut it into medium-sized chunks.
Heat water in a pot, add the pumpkin pieces and let them cook for about twenty minutes, or until tender.
Drain the pumpkin and let it cool at room temperature.
Blend the pumpkin pulp with an immersion blender to obtain a smooth and homogeneous puree.
Add a pinch of salt and mix.
Also add the nutmeg and mix again. Start adding the flour, a little at a time, allowing the previously added flour to be absorbed before adding more.
When you have finished adding the flour, you will have a smooth but rather soft and sticky mixture.
Heat the water in a pot, when it starts to boil, salt to taste and then form the gnocchi with two teaspoons and drop them directly into the pot.
Proceed in the same way until the pumpkin mixture is finished.
You can choose the size of your gnocchi according to your taste, larger or smaller.
If you like, you can transfer the mixture into a pastry bag and create mounds that you will then cut with a knife or scissors directly into the pot.
Let the pumpkin gnocchi cook for a few minutes, when they float to the surface, drain them and pour them directly into the pan with the butter and sage seasoning.
Sauté for a minute on high heat, adding, if you like, a sprinkle of grated Grana Padano or Parmigiano Reggiano.